Te Muehling's work encompasses most aspects of the book, including the typography and the layered structure. He designed the cycad leaf and sea-fan castings, the laser-cut image in two leaves of paper, the altered historical maps, and the cover and box.

Leslie Miller and Brad Ewing printed the text and the Vandermaelen map by letterpress at The Grenfell Press, New York. The graphic design is by Leslie Miller, with Ted Muehling. The text was printed in Walbaum type on Magnani paper.

Jonathan Singer scanned the cliché-verre originals and printed them digitally at Singer Editions, Boston.

Mark Tomlinson bound the edition in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Paul Wong, Artistic Director of Dieu Donné (Papermill), New York, made the papers and castings by hand in abaca, cotton, and linen especially for this edition.

May Castleberry, editor, Contemporary Editions, organized this book for the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art.

Each copy of the edition of one hundred and thirty-five is signed and numbered, including seventy-five copies reserved for the members of the Library Council and thirty for the artists and the collaborators. Each of a deluxe edition of twenty-five copies, including copies for the Museum and the collaborators, are signed and lettered. The deluxe edition and the book and a unique box and book cover designed by Ted Muehling.

With an additional single print in a brown chemise; with the book in a box with drop-back side and lid.